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Zoom is available to anyone with a valid Northwestern NetID, and its use is intended for the purpose of conducting University-related activities. To get an account and begin using it immediately, visit the Zoom login page, sign in with your NetID and password, and authenticate using Duo MFA. An account is provisioned automatically upon first login.

NUworkspace offers users a virtual Windows desktop service that provides access to a suite of many software applications to faculty, students, and staff, including access to software packages that may not be readily available on their desktop/laptop computers.

Northwestern has agreements with Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft Azure, to provide discounted cloud hosting options for Northwestern faculty and staff.

At Northwestern, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon are the main cellular service providers serving the Chicago and Evanston campuses. Each carrier maintains cell towers across the campuses to provide service to their customers.

Northwestern offers many ways to help your IT system authenticate or authorize users. This includes Active Directory, LDAP, Single Sign-On (SSO), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Shibboleth, SAML, and others.

ArcGIS is a geographic information system (GIS) for working with maps, geographic information and data. It is used for creating and using maps; compiling and working with geospatial information; analyzing mapped information; sharing, discovering and using maps and geographic information in a range of applications; and managing geographic information in a database.

The Northwestern Public Virtual Private Network (VPN) allows users with Northwestern NetIDs to access University network resources as if they were directly connected to the Northwestern network.Virtual Private Network (VPN) establishes a "secure tunnel" for your computer on the Northwestern network. It provides strong encryption, enables authenticated access to the Northwestern network from external and untrusted environments, and proxies your network traffic so it appears to originate from within the Northwestern network.

RDSS provides secure on-premise data storage for researchers.

Data scientists and statisticians are available to answer questions and provide advice through short-term consultations.

Northwestern IT offers consultations on using cloud resources (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc) for research at Northwestern.

GitHub provides hosting for git repositories and other services and tools for software development teams.

The Research Secure Data Enclave provides a secure cloud environment within Google Cloud (GC) for researchers who work with Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and other data that requires compliance with NIST SP 800-171.

Northwestern offers 1Password, a secure password manager that helps you store, manage, and share passwords, passkeys, and other sensitive information.

SharePoint is an online content and document management tool available for students, faculty, and staff to create web sites and manage file libraries.

OneDrive offers secure, cloud-based storage that lets you seamlessly collaborate and access files from anywhere in the world, at any time.

Microsoft Teams is a secure, Cloud-based chat and group collaborative workspace that seamlessly integrates with other Microsoft 365 applications, including Exchange, OneDrive, and SharePoint.

NetID services take information from the HR or student system and create unified Northwestern credentials (NetIDs) that are then connected with information about each individual. NetIDs are then used as the primary way for people to interact with IT services. Other types of NetIDs can be created as well for specific people, organizations, or IT system purposes.

Northwestern provides three wireless networks to access the Internet. Each network is unique to University affiliation and device type.

Email and calendaring services provide standard individual e-mail, calendaring, and contact management services.

Allows meeting organizers to host audio-only (dial-in) Teams meetings.

Power BI is a cloud-based suite of business analytics tools that enables anyone to connect to, visualize, and analyze data with greater speed, efficiency, and understanding.

Microsoft Planner, is a project management platform within the Microsoft 365 applications and add-ins that enables users to create and manage plans and tasks on various ad-hoc projects.

Power Apps is a low-code app development tool within the Microsoft 365 applications and add-ins, designed for the creation of custom apps via the use of app templates, services, and connectors, as well as third party sources.